Teachers need to do all they can to integrate technology into classroom Recognize that online tech is a way of life and fundamental to learning. Regularly book the computer lab, invest in more school technology, welcome the BYOD policy.. do what is needed to facilitate online learning. Follow the link and take this quick survey to evaluate how well you’re doing and and receive tips for improvement.

The New York Times article “In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores,” discusses a school in the Kyrene School District that has fully implemented technology in the classroom. Since 2005, the school has invested around $33 million in technology, par a passing vote. Children use laptops and tablets for their work and integrate things like Facebook groups into regular projects. Unfortunately, the school is also suffering from low standardized test scores. (Ed note: unfortunately, it seems entirely plausible that test scores and actual learning may not be as tethered as we’d like.)

While statewide test scores have risen, Kyrene School District remains stagnant in the face of all of their innovation. Teachers worry that while the technology is engaging on a creative level, the students may be missing out on basic concepts like math and language. Other proponents of technology point out that standardized test scores may not be the best gauge of student intelligence and creativity. Still others yet reason that there’s no reason to spend millions of well-earned tax dollars on a system before knowing whether or not it is sincerely helpful for educational growth.

A meme (/ˈmiːm/; meem) is “an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.” A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena.

•There were many different sections where you could talk about different subjects

•No registration required and posts are anonymous

•The site grew into central hub for memes

•one of the Internet’s most trafficked image boards

How Memes Can Affect Other Peoples Lives

Eduard Anatolyevich Khil “‘Symbol of Leningrad”

His music career had petered out in the 1990’s only to be resurrected by an internet meme that was born from his 1976 non-lexical vocable version of the song “I Am Glad, ‘Cause I’m Finally Returning Back Home”

On February 4th this year, The popular musician Deadmau5 had his Ferrari 458 Spider (which retails for a base price of $257,000) covered in a vinyl featuring an internet meme known at Nyan Cat.

Using Memes to Sell Your Products

This vinyl slip mat features an old video game meme. The poorly translated line was from the game was “All Your Base Are Belong To Us“.. Moog cleverly used this in their favour to sell one of the products.

Comment on this post with your own scam! It only needs to be 3-4 sentences long. Explain to your victim what you want from them or want to give them, and a consequence or reward if they do or do not do what you are asking of them.

2) Dear Elizabeth, I know you don’t know me but I have heard a lot about you. I’m sorry to contact you but I need your help. My son needs a kidney transplant and we don’t have enough money! Please send me $5000. Thank you, your distant relative

Chain emails usually consist of a message attempting to convince you to pass on the letter to as many other recipients as possible, urban legends normally are turned into chain emails

At the end of a chain email there is either a reward or threat, in the case of a Blood Mary chain email it would look like this:

We strongly advise you to send this email on. It is seriously NO JOKE. We don’t want to see another life wasted. ITS YOUR CHOICE… WANNA DIE TONIGHT? If you send this email to…NO PEOPLE – You’re going to die.

1-5 PEOPLE – You’re going to either get hurt or get the biggest fright of your life.

5-15 PEOPLE – You will bring your family bad luck and someone close to you will die.

15 OR MORE PEOPLE – You are safe from Bloody Mary

Scams: they ask you for something and describe either a reward or consequence that will result

Due to the flattening of the world described by Friedman, it is really hard to track down who has stolen from you because they can be anywhere in the world

“The fact that Wikipedia is not a reliable source for academic research doesn’t mean that it’s wrong to use basic reference materials when you’re trying to familiarize yourself with a topic.” (Harvard College, 2014)